How to Play The Manchester Rambler on Guitar?

Ewan MacColl - The Manchester Rambler can be played in the key of C using the C, G chords. For C, To play C, press fret 1 on the B string with finger 2, let low E, G, high E ring open, mute A, D. For G, To play G, press fret 2 on the A string with finger 2, let D, G, B ring open, mute low E, high E. Barre: Use your index finger to press multiple strings on the same fret, keeping your finger flat. You can play The Manchester Rambler with the ↓-↓↑-↑↓↑ strumming pattern.

Ewan MacColl - The Manchester Rambler Chords

Chord reference C, G

Rhythm tips ↓-↓↑-↑↓↑

[C] [C] [C]I’ve been over Snowdon, I’ve slept upon Crowdon I’ve camped by the Waynestones as [G]well [G]I’ve sunbathed on Kinder, been burned to a cinder And many more things I can [C]tell [C]My rucksack has oft been me [G]pillow, The heather has oft been me [C]bed And sooner than part from the [G]mountains, I think I would rather be [C]dead

[C]I’m a rambler, I’m a rambler from [G]Manchester way I get all me pleasure the [C]hard moorland way I may be a wage slave on [G]Monday But I am a free man on [C]Sunday

The [C]day was just ending and I was descending Down Grinesbrook just by Upper [G]Tor [G]When a voice cried “Hey you” in the way keepers do He’d the worst face that ever I [C]saw The things that he said were un-[G]pleasant, In the teeth of his fury I [C]said “Sooner than part from the [G]mountains, I think I would rather be [C]dead”

[C]I’m a rambler, I’m a rambler from [G]Manchester way I get all me pleasure the [C]hard moorland way I may be a wage slave on [G]Monday But I am a free man on [C]Sunday

He [C]called me a louse and said “Think of the grouse” Well I thought, but I still couldn’t [G]see [G]Why all Kinder Scout and the moors roundabout Couldn’t take both the poor grouse and [C]me He said “All this land is my [G]master’s”, At that I stood shaking my [C]head No man has the right to own [G]mountains, Any more than the deep ocean [C]bed

[C]I’m a rambler, I’m a rambler from [G]Manchester way I get all me pleasure the [C]hard moorland way I may be a wage-slave on [G]Monday But I am a free man on [C]Sunday

I [C]once loved a maid, a spot welder by trade She was fair as the Rowan in [G]bloom [G]And the bloom of her eye matched the blue Moreland sky I wooed her from April to [C]June On the day that we should have been [G]married, I went for a ramble in-[C]stead For sooner than part from the [G]mountains, I think I would rather be [C]dead

[C]I’m a rambler, I’m a rambler from [G]Manchester way I get all me pleasure the [C]hard moorland way I may be a wage slave on [G]Monday But I am a free man on [C]Sunday

So I’ll [C]walk where I will over mountain and hill, and I’ll lie where the bracken is [G]deep [G]I belong to the mountains, the clear running fountains Where the grey rocks lie ragged and [C]steep I’ve seen the white hare in the [G]gullys, And the curlew fly high over[C]head And sooner than part from the [G]mountains, I think I would rather be [C]dead

[C]I’m a rambler, I’m a rambler from [G]Manchester way I get all me pleasure the [C]hard moorland way I may be a wage-slave on [G]Monday But I am a free man on [C]Sunday

[C]I’m a rambler, I’m a rambler from [G]Manchester way I get all me pleasure the [C]hard moorland way I may be a wage slave on [G]Monday But I am a free man on [C]Sunday

Artist Ewan MacColl

Album Single

Genres Folk

Year 1932

Key C

Ewan MacColl - The Manchester Rambler can be played in the key of C using the C, G chords.

For C, To play C, press fret 1 on the B string with finger 2, let low E, G, high E ring open, mute A, D.
For G, To play G, press fret 2 on the A string with finger 2, let D, G, B ring open, mute low E, high E.

Barre: Use your index finger to press multiple strings on the same fret, keeping your finger flat.

You can play The Manchester Rambler with the ↓-↓↑-↑↓↑ strumming pattern.